Indianapolis Times, Volume 37, Number 100, Indianapolis, Marion County, 26 August 1925 — Page 6
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The Memorial investigation •fo"PME da y something is going to be acil J-{ complished by public officials in Indiana -shat will not result in an investigation. Some ..flay, we are assured, the world is going to end, too. ' - The latest investigation concerns the World War Memorial project, that enormous, expensive and spectacular undertaking that was provided by the Legislature just after the close.of the World War and which some day, perhaps the day in which investigations ceas'e, will become a reality. The State hoard of accounts, employed for purpose of investigating, and which ini’ ffestigates everything and anything with a vengeance, charges that Walker and Weeks, i m architects employed at great cost to construct the buildings, have specified a certain brand of steel manufactured by a firm in which they ape interested. We don’t know the first thing about steel. In fact we know just as much about it as does the worthy chief examiner of the State board of accounts, ivho specializes in investigating uu&oJTo.. sjteals. But, on the surface, the charges made by the accounts board appet.r serious. We can understand the advantage of a firm of archif tects being in the building material business. However, out of fairness to everybody, let's don’t rush in and insist that Walker and Weeks, who are among the leading builders of the country and who have prepared plans and specifications on an enormous scale for the war memorial, be fired outright. The items involved appear to be comparatively small. in comparison with the $10,000,000 the taxpayers are paying for the memorial for the edification of their remote descendants. Os course, no one condones irregularities of the kind described and if there is not some good reason for using the particular brand of specified over, and above the fact that alker and Weeks are in a position to supply it, the specifications should be altered. The of trustees of the war memorial certainly *a,f'e good business men and they should be CoSpabje of handling an affair of this kind. We don’t condone dishonesty, implied or otherwise, but neither do we care to see the ■‘fijtrcnirmg of added expenses involved by changing horses in the middle of the stream. So, Boss! It tIEXRV FORD, having stood a 1926 model 1111 Durham cow alongside a 1926 model fiivver, decides that from the standpoint of efficiency the flivver is a better bit of engineering than the cow. And having done his part in the substitution of the flivver for that antiquated machine called the horse, he is now that somebody do as much in the matter of the cow. He believes it is possible to devise a machine that will produce synthetic milk to take the place of cow’s milk. Don’t laugh at Henry when he says this. Remember that your grandfather laughed at the idea of mechanical horses and that you now laugh at your grandfather in a way you wouldn’t want your grandchildren to laugh at you. Can’t you foresee the day when Dayton,
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The Case of Editor Magee
„ JFrom The Baltimore Sun) UCH sympathy will go out to - Carl C. Magee, editor of a k___J newspaper at Albuquerque, X. M., who In the course of an assault made upon him shot and killed a bystander. The report of the encounter shows that Magee was acting in self-defense, the bullet meant for his a.dversary going astray. / There have been few more courageous and effective fights made against corruption and gang rule in this country than that made by Magee in his effort to clean up New Mexico. Taking his life in his hands, he has used the power of his newspaper to expose graft, to prove that the courts were dominated by unscrupulous }Tien and that administration of Justice in the State was a scandal and a disgrace. It tvas through Magee that Senator Walsh learned of the sudden prosperity of • former Secretary of the "Interior Fall, a disclosure which led-to the Doheny “loan” and which furnished the clew that enabled Mr.
Tenn., will bel arguing the question of whether milk machines descended from cows, with the court solemnly announcing that it couldn’t be true because cows had tails? Ford seems to have a picture of:farm life and the farming industry entirely different from that which remains in most of our minds. Farm life, as he sees it, is one thing; the farming industry is another. The farming industry, composed largely of back-breaking drudgery, as he sees it, takes most of the joy oHt of farm life. At the same time it is wasteful and uneconomic. He’d get greater results out of less labor and allow the farm folks time to live. Which would not be a bad result. Time waR when a, farmer’s life was pretty well encompassed within the fences that, separated him from his neighbors. Inside those fences he and his wii’e toiled from 4 a. m. until 9 p. m. rnd their ambition was to get enough ahead to enable them to send their sons off to school to become doctors and' lawyers and editors—anything but farmers. Better transportation, the mail, telegraph, telephone and radio have drawn the farmer into the complex industrial and commercial scheme of the present, but he is still anything but a smooth-working cog in the machine. Ford wants to correct this condition for the sake of the farmer himself, /is well as society as a whole. Mechanical cows may be a step in that direction. ' i . £ LI • Airplane Service "pT VERY day or so we read about someone flying from Berlin or Paris to London. That sort of thing is common in Europe. Buy your ticket, check your baggage, board a huge passenger airplane and in a short time you alight at your destination. It’s all in a day’s work. All of this simply indicates how far ahead of the United States, Europe has progressed in the matter of air transportation. Additional air routes in the United States for the carrying of mail, express and eventually, we hope, passengers, are being contemplated. Indianapolis is being considered as a possible stopping point for some of these planes. Persons interested in the development of air routes wish to know whether Indianapolis really can support this form of transportation. The city will not be made an air port unless the business can be shown to be profitable. That is plain, ordinary common sense. Os course, Indianapolis wants air lines. The city has been a leader in transportation for years and does not wish to fall behind. Air service would be a step toward the Greater Indianapolis goal for which all of us are striving. But the question is, to what extent are you willing to support air service? The Chamber of Commerce is seeking an answer to this question. It wants to know how many letters can be expected to be carried in each direction each day; also, how many express and freight packages. If you are interested in air routes, write to the Bureau of Industry of the Chamber of Commerce and tell exactly of what benefit airplane Service would be to you in your business.
form to the curvature of the earth, and the arc were followed, he would be pointing toward the southern part of Russia and towards China. In any case his feet would be pointed toward the Indian Ocean on the opposite side of the earth, through its Center. Who was Mark Anthony and what was his name in the Latin? Marcus Antonius, better known as Mark Anthony, was a warm partisan of Caesar. After the murder of Caesar he defeated Brutus and Cassius at Philippi, formed a triumvirate with Octavius and Lepidus, fell
Walsh to go to the bottom of the naval oil reserve deals. There has never been proper, recognition of the service thus rendered the Government and the people by Magee. He has pursued his course in defiance of repeated threats of death, of attack, of persecution in the courts and of imprisonment. It was in the course of a physical assault upon him by a judge whoso arbitrary and dishonest practices he had exposed and denounced that Magee fired the bullet which killed an innocent man. But for the result of his own efforts in arousing the people of New Mexico to the debasement of their judicial tribunal. Magee might now have to fear summary treatment. Having succeeded in attracting attention of the whole country to conditions which prevail In New Mexico and won to his support a large body of the public at home, there is reason to hope that he will now receive the consideration to which he is fairly entitled: A
in love with the famous Cleopatra; was defeated by Octavius in the naval battle of Actlum and afterwards killed himself. He lived from 83 to 30 B. C. What is the chemical composition of wheat? Water 9.66 per cent; protein, 14.18 per cent; fat, 2.61 per cent; starch, 69.94 per cent; crude fibre, 1.70 per cent and ash, 1.91 per cent. Tom Sims Says It’s getting so a man’s almost got to go to a dance or stay sober. One nice thing about having a grouchy husband is a woman doesn’t mind when he has to work late. The faster you eat the quicker you finish eating forever. Being conceited is usually about
all a conceited has to be conceited about. It’s a good thing we don’t see ourselves as others see us. Chances are we would drop dead. Marriage isn’t a failure just because some of those who try it are. We heard a young lady ask another to look
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and see if she had her bathing suit on. (Copyright, 1926, NEA Service, Inc.)
THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES
ANCIENT TABLETS SA Y THA T SHEEP IS ANCESTOR OF MAN
By David Diet* AAM Sere fee Writer HE theory of evolution is almost 4,000 years aid. This is the discovery just made by Dr. Edward Chiera, assistant professor of Assyriology at the University of Pennsylvania. Fundamentalists sometimes accuse Charles Darwjn of having invented the theory of evolution. But scholars have known for many years that Aristotle and other early Greek philosophers discussed such theories. Now Dr. Chiera shows that the theory is just about twice as old as scholars formerly thought it was. Dr. Chiera has just finished translating six stone tables found in Nippur, on the Euphrates River.
RIGHT HERE IN INDIANA By GAYLORD NELSON
PUBLIC BUILDING PROJECTS I"- | A WHENCE F. ORR, State , I | examiner, proposes an inI ■ vestigation of affairs of the Indiana World War Memorial, and the building of the American Legion head-
quarters. He recommends dismissal of the architects of the project and makes serious charges against them. The World War Memorial is a magnificent conception. That its erection must be accompanied by probes, charges and countercharges of shady practices is a fine tribute from
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the living: to the soldier dead. But that’s characteristic of building building enterprises. The Indianapolis board of public works has ordered thorough inspection of the new municipal garage just completed at a cost of SIIO,OOO. Serious flaws In construction are alleged. Meanwhile the new wings at Julietta continue to fall down. The State tax commission and the Indianapolis park board squabble over Kessleboulevard and Marion County roads, where public funds are claimed to have been squanderedi City oouncilmen charge the board of works have permitted faulty pavement to be laid and money wasted on other public improvement projects None of the charges may he true —but the average citizen wonders. Perhaps some day responsible public officials will exercise the same effelciency and judgment and take as much pains In oversight of public building projects to see that the public gets a dollar’s worth of building for a dollar spent as they would in the erection of a private chicken coop. Apparently that day Is distant. BANK ROBBERS STILL ACTIVE SIE American State Bank at St. Bernice, (Ind.) suffered the debilitating attention of bank bandits Tuesday. A messenger of the institution en route from Clinton—and convoyed by armed guards—was held up and robbed of SII,OOO. The bandits, as usual, escaped. Where was the embattled posse of infuriated citizen volunteers such as bankers have been organizing in every county to foil bank bandits? Where was the State motor police, the SI,OOO- - reward, and other new fangled agencies enlisted in the war against bank robbers? The successful holdup occurred in spite of all the new protective devices recently perfected by bankers. And in a way that no reasonable precautionary measures could have prevented. Volunteer villgance committees and other law enforcement machinery may reduce bank attacks but they aren’t panaceas. They don’t reach the heart of the problem. William Evans, held In the Putnam County jail charged with . complicity in the Spencer bank robbery’, is scheduled to trial Oct. 5. The Spencer bank robbery occurred in November 1923. Two years after the crime one of the alleged perpetrators will be tried for it—perhaps. Postponements, changes of venue, and the characteristic pettifogging that marks criminal legal procedure has kept the defendant out of courts until the crime is almost forgotten. Law enforcement agencies, public and private, can’t suppress hank banditry as long as our leadenfooted administration of justice encourages it. UPHOLDING THE CONSTITUTION mHE Triangle, anew political organization with membership in Marion County, but with State wide aspirations, was incorporated Monday by the Secretary of State. The purpose of the organization is "to uphold the Constitution, to encourage and promote social, political and moral influence, etc.” No one can quarrel with those high aims. But can preservation of the Constitution and sacred American principles really be accomplished by any such organiza*tion? In recent years numberless ambitious organizations with extensive membership have been launched with the avowed purpose of preserving American ideals, and institutions—from the Minute Men of the Constitution to the Sons and Daughters of I Will Arise. Yet the Constitution, instead of being more generally upheld, falls on its face and is flouted just as
They were written in about 2,000 B. C. by the Chaldeans. They give a. version of the origin of man that is surprisingly modern in its tone. , Acording to them man evolved after long years from an ancestor who went about on all fours like other animals no. However, the tablets do not imply any' relationship between man and monkey. Instead, they say that man descended from the sheep family. • * * SHE deepest mine in the world is in the copper seam of Michigan. Its depth is 8,700 feet. It is more than 1.000 feet deeper than the next deepest mine, which is located in Minals .Geraes, Brazil.
much as before upholders .took the field. The British Constitution is a shadowy creature composed of ghostlySprecedonts. jt j las no t an d can not Ik- reduced to a written instrument. Nevertheless it actually governs the widespread British Empire and is accorded the profoundest respect by the citizens—though there is no politico-fra-ternal organization of self appointed patriots to uphold and defend It. On the other hand the Constitution of the United States, a complete. definite, written scheme of government with liberty, is mocked, maltreated and ignored. This despite the activities of organizations dedicated to its defense. The organization system of upholding the Constitution doesn’t produce results. What is needed to keep American institutions alive is less collective crusading and more individual respect. JAZZ AND WALKING mOHN HUSSEY, manager of the Indiana Young People's Reading Circle, told Marion County teachers Monday the jazz mania is so prevalent today that people don't walk naturally. They ' have a peculiar twitch in their gait, he said. That’s interesting, but absurd. A survey at a crowded intersection of pedestrians exhibiting peculiar gaits would reveal that more of them were afflicted with rheumatism or tight shoes than jazz. A pedestrian who doesn’t twitch and have a sprightly walk these
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days is likely to become a traffic casualty. The stately tread of a Roman senator is imposing but dangerous at our congested downtown corners. Earnest reformers impute every social evil and private ill to jazz. Tt is held responsible for everything from the crime wave and the marcel to falling hair and fallen arches. However, the influence of the wailing saxophone is overrated. At most it is an annoyance not the embodiment of Satan. Wars, pestilence and moral corruption are not caused by the musical tastes of an age. When the thirty years’ war decimated Germany, practically extinguishing the country's learning, culture, material wealth and morals, one side intoned the solemn Gregorian chants and from the other thundered the majestic hymns of Luther. There was no frivolous music in those days to
THE HUMAN SIDE OF BANKING SERVICE Financial Aid to Women What happens when the average woman is left by the death of her husband with the problem of managing his estate? Unfortunately, too many men, in order to pro--tect their wives from the cares and worries of business, neglect the opportunity of giving them a business training and an insight into their affairs, [ Their death leaves the widow with new and strange problems to be solved—the safeguarding of investments, taxes, the investing of life insurance funds. These problems that are new and trying to an inexperienced woman are part of the daily routine of this bank. What is more logical than turning to the Woman’s Department of this bank for help and guidance? The service here is designed to be helpful and sympathetic. Not just a cold exchange of cash and paper, but a humanizing handling of the problems of finance. Then, too, the Department, with its beautiful , appointments, is a place to rest and refresh, and to meet and confer. Women are invited to make this Department their own, and to profit by its willingness and ability to help them handle their financial as well as their business problems. FLETCHER AMERICAN NAHONAL BANK Capital and Surplus, $3,375,000*00 INDUSTRY HAS BANKED WITH THE FLETCHER AMERICAN BANK FOR HALF A CENTURY ‘
THE SPUDZ FAMILY—By TALBURT
arouse people’s passions. The saxophone wasn’t invented until a couple of centuries later. Jazz has much to answer for. It can make night hideous and give a restaurant dinner the earache, but it doesn't actually commit murder. Henry Ford has done more to alter people’s walk than Irving Berlin. Tum-Te-Tum-Tum By Hal Cochran r RISE ever> day with a song I I* n y° ur mind and. whi'o l£]J dressing, just leisurely hum It. If words are forgotten, by trying, you’ll find that it’s easy to turn, te, turn, turn it. Whatever the strain of the song
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that you sing, it is bound to spread cheer all around you. The people who hear it catch on to the thing, and the world's kinda glad that it found you. It may be a mlssle that's easy to whistle. You've only to carry tho air. Go on. shrilly strum it, or turn, te, turn, tum it and catch the tune right in its lair. At work or at play, through the night a'nd the day there’s a soothing in melodies sweet. You sort a get swinging when people are singing and pep filters into your feet. Your friends all will greet you and gladly they'll meet you whenever you’re coming their way, if you are just cheerful and give them an, earful to turn, te, tum, turning all day. (Copyright, 1925, NEA Service, Inc.)